Una vida consciente

Folklore is the key element in all the short stories of this important exiled Cuban writer. In his new book, Sanchez-Boudy shows his reader the Cuba of yesteryear- its folklore, customs, beauty and the true essence of the Cuban people. He tries to salvage the old Cuba to show it to new generations that were not around to see it.

El mundo está dividido en dos tipos de personas: los Perfectos y los defectos. Los primeros han dominado hasta tal punto su cuerpo y su mente que tienen poderes sobrehumanos (cuatro poderes físicos para los hombres, cuatro poderes mentales para las mujeres). Los defectos, por su parte, son el eslabón más débil de una sociedad que los considera inferiores y sin derechos… aunque son mucho más numerosos que los Perfectos. Un once de septiembre, una organización terrorista de ideología pro-defectos hace estallar una bomba en el aeropuerto de Barcelona, provocando una escalada de odio,...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD '[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes '[Rice wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon A Vampire Chronicles novella from the internationally bestselling Anne Rice A VAMPIRE IN THE ITALIAN AGE OF GOLD. . . Sixteen years old, Vittorio is the sole survivor of a bizarre and violent massacre at his father's Tuscan palazzo. Escaping ...

A French novel of the nineteenth century is based on the author's own youthful passion for an older woman and describes the amorous adventures of a young law student whose infatuation with a woman several years older than himself will last a lifetime.